1st Edition
Teachers Pumping in Schools Feminized Bodies, Firsthand Accounts, and Advocacy
Chapter 1: Context Chapter 2: Reproductive Labor in Schools: How Capitalism Invisiblizes Carework and Why it Matters to Teachers Chapter 3: Teaching Versus Lactation: Incompatible Rules and Division of Labor Chapter 4: "It's A Girl Problem and It’s Your Problem": Misfits in the Institutional Design Chapter 5: How Teachers Feel Pumping at Work Chapter 6: Ways Forward: Personal and Collective Moves Chapter 7: Optional Afterword: For Methodology Enthusiasts: Using Poetic Inquiry for Research Chapter 8: The Poems, Compiled
Biography
Elise Toedt is a researcher, poet, and teacher. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her current research focuses on the embodied experiences of teachers in schools as they navigate time, space, and workplace policies related to lactation. Her wider research interests include: Carework and its place within capitalist systems, the impact of intersectional identities on teaching praxis, critical creative writing pedagogies, and feminist, arts-based research methodologies. Prior to her experience in higher education, Toedt taught secondary English for eight years in the Twin Cities, United States, and in Java, Indonesia.
“In highlighting the stories of teachers who face pumping at work, Toedt brings their hidden labor into view.”
Dr Mandie Bevels Dunn, Assistant Professor, The University of South Florida
